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But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.
Tim LaHaye

Meaning of "populate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD POPULATE

From Medieval Latin populāre to provide with inhabitants, from Latin populus people.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF POPULATE

populate  [ˈpɒpjʊˌleɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POPULATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Populate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb populate in English.

WHAT DOES POPULATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

populate

Population

A population is a summation of all the organisms of the same group or species, who live in the same geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding., the population of a certain species in a certain area is estimated using the Lincoln Index. The area that is used to define a sexual population is defined as the area where inter-breeding is potentially possible between any pair within the area. The probability of interbreeding is greater than the probability of cross-breeding with individuals from other areas. Under normal conditions, breeding is substantially more common within the area than across the border. In sociology, population refers to a collection of human beings. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of human populations. This article refers mainly to human population.

Definition of populate in the English dictionary

The definition of populate in the dictionary is to live in; inhabit. Other definition of populate is to provide a population for; colonize or people.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO POPULATE

PRESENT

Present
I populate
you populate
he/she/it populates
we populate
you populate
they populate
Present continuous
I am populating
you are populating
he/she/it is populating
we are populating
you are populating
they are populating
Present perfect
I have populated
you have populated
he/she/it has populated
we have populated
you have populated
they have populated
Present perfect continuous
I have been populating
you have been populating
he/she/it has been populating
we have been populating
you have been populating
they have been populating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I populated
you populated
he/she/it populated
we populated
you populated
they populated
Past continuous
I was populating
you were populating
he/she/it was populating
we were populating
you were populating
they were populating
Past perfect
I had populated
you had populated
he/she/it had populated
we had populated
you had populated
they had populated
Past perfect continuous
I had been populating
you had been populating
he/she/it had been populating
we had been populating
you had been populating
they had been populating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will populate
you will populate
he/she/it will populate
we will populate
you will populate
they will populate
Future continuous
I will be populating
you will be populating
he/she/it will be populating
we will be populating
you will be populating
they will be populating
Future perfect
I will have populated
you will have populated
he/she/it will have populated
we will have populated
you will have populated
they will have populated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been populating
you will have been populating
he/she/it will have been populating
we will have been populating
you will have been populating
they will have been populating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would populate
you would populate
he/she/it would populate
we would populate
you would populate
they would populate
Conditional continuous
I would be populating
you would be populating
he/she/it would be populating
we would be populating
you would be populating
they would be populating
Conditional perfect
I would have populate
you would have populate
he/she/it would have populate
we would have populate
you would have populate
they would have populate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been populating
you would have been populating
he/she/it would have been populating
we would have been populating
you would have been populating
they would have been populating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you populate
we let´s populate
you populate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to populate
Past participle
populated
Present Participle
populating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POPULATE


accumulate
əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt
calculate
ˈkælkjʊˌleɪt
circulate
ˈsɜːkjʊˌleɪt
coagulate
kəʊˈæɡjʊˌleɪt
congratulate
kənˈɡrætjʊˌleɪt
cumulate
ˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt
ejaculate
ɪˈdʒækjʊˌleɪt
emulate
ˈɛmjʊˌleɪt
encapsulate
ɪnˈkæpsjʊˌleɪt
formulate
ˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt
insulate
ˈɪnsjʊˌleɪt
manipulate
məˈnɪpjʊˌleɪt
modulate
ˈmɒdjʊˌleɪt
postulate
ˈpɒstjʊˌleɪt
reformulate
riːˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt
regulate
ˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪt
simulate
ˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt
speculate
ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪt
stimulate
ˈstɪmjʊˌleɪt
stipulate
ˈstɪpjʊˌleɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POPULATE

popular music
popular press
popular sovereignty
popular vote
populariser
popularist
popularity
popularization
popularize
popularizer
popularly
populars
populated
population
population control
population explosion
population figures
population planning
population pyramid
populational

WORDS THAT END LIKE POPULATE

absquatulate
ambulate
articulate
chocolate
consulate
copulate
demodulate
depopulate
deregulate
emasculate
geniculate
immaculate
matriculate
ovulate
particulate
recirculate
repopulate
reticulate
triangulate
undulate
ungulate

Synonyms and antonyms of populate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «POPULATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «populate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of populate

Translation of «populate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POPULATE

Find out the translation of populate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of populate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «populate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

使聚居
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poblar
570 millions of speakers

English

populate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आबाद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ملء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заполнения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

povoar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জনপূর্ণ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peupler
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

populasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bevölkern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

人を居住させる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

거주시키다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Populate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விரிவுப்படுத்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वसाहत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

doldurmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

popolare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wypełnić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заповнення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

popula
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συμπληρώσετε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vul
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

befolka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

befolke
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of populate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POPULATE»

The term «populate» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.632 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POPULATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «populate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «populate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about populate

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7 QUOTES WITH «POPULATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word populate.
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Sam Abell
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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Jeffery Deaver
In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
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Jeffery Deaver
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
4
Morris Dees
What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
5
Marc Faber
In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.
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Lawrence Kasdan
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.
7
Tim LaHaye
But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POPULATE»

Discover the use of populate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to populate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Minifigure Customization: Populate Your World!
Offers a wide range of techniques that can be used to alter LEGO minifigures by using a series of step-by-step tutorials on decal design and application, custom part modification, and color alteration.
Jared K. Burks, 2011
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Extracting Structured Information from Wikipedia Articles to ...
Extracting Structured Information from Wikipedia Articles to Populate Infoboxes Dustin Lange, Christoph Böhm, Felix Naumann Technische Berichte Nr. 38 des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Softwaresystemtechnik an der Universität Potsdam ...
Dustin Lange, Christoph Böhm, Felix Naumann, 2010
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Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites
Use DWR to Populate a Selection List from a Java Array #44 JsBikeBean. getDesignerInfo( function(returnVal){ ...}) CLIENT <script ... src= “/[web-app-name ]/dwr/interface/JsBikeBean.js”.../> DWRServlet.java dwr.xml SERVER BikeBean. java ...
Bruce W. Perry, 2006
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Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source
This property can be used to populate the control with plain text using either an ActionScript function or by doing it inline using data binding. The following code demonstrates assigning an ID to the label, which enables you to reference the ...
Jeff Tapper, Michael Labriola, Matthew Boles, 2010
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Functional Design of Custom Microarrays Using Onto-Design
5.4. Data. Parsing. -. oe.populate. module. Once the data is downloaded from NCBI, a group of Java programs are run with these files as input. These programs parse the data files and create a set of output files that are used to populate the ...
Pratik Bhavsar, 2006
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Web Development with Java: Using Hibernate, JSPs and Servlets
BeanUtils. populate(data, request.getParameterMap()); } catch ( IllegalAccessException iae) { logger.error(“Populate - Illegal Access.”, iae); } catch (InvocationTargetException ite) { logger.error(“Populate - Invocation Target. ”, ite); } } public void ...
Tim Downey, 2008
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Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010
Fortunately, the TreeView includes a populate-on-demand feature that makes it easy to fill in branches of the tree as they are expanded. Even better, you can use populate-on-demand on selected portions ofthe tree, as you see fit. To use ...
Matthew MacDonald, Adam Freeman, 2010
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Mastering Perl/Tk: Graphical User Interfaces in Perl
These keyword/value pairs are not available in step 6, when configure steps through the configuration specifications returned by Populate. The list of keyword/ value pairs must also include any that the widget's superclasses might provide; this ...
Stephen Lidie, Nancy Walsh, 2002
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Beginning SQL Server 2000 DBA: From Novice to Professional
You've created a Full—Text index and added the relevant columns to that index, now you need to populate it. Until it has been populated, the Full—Text index will be empty and any queries using a Full—Text predicate will retrieve zero rows.
Baya Pavliashvili, Michael Benkovich, Tony Bain, 2004
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Pro OpenSSH
First, you can use ssh-keyscan to populate a file with the lists of hosts you wish to trust. A common problem in host-based authentication is when a client specifies the short name of a host when the server is expecting fully qualified, or visa ...
Michael Stahnke, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POPULATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term populate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jim Crow-Era Folk Artist Captures The Haunting Ways We Envision …
Rather than emulating their biological reality, Thomas creates simple yet mangled visions of our rotting bones, the kind that populate children's ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Rooftop beehives the latest buzz at Dallas Omni
While guests sleep, the bees will work to populate, pollinate, and make hundreds of pounds of honey each year. You'll soon see it on the ... «WFAA, Jul 15»
3
NRL Lowdown Round 21: Who's on the cusp and who's on the block …
... it's one thing to run over the top of boys in the Holden Cup but quite another to do it against the grizzled veterans that populate reserve grade. «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
4
Lend Lease plans NOMA pop-up restaurant at Barangaroo
... in which Horwitz and his team negotiated with some of the world's best-known restaurants and retailers to populate the $6 billion precinct. «The Australian, Jul 15»
5
John Oliver Makes Case For Scrubbing Mandatory Prison Sentence …
... is locked up, totaling 2 million and at this rate we soon will have enough incarcerated people to populate an entire new country, Oliver said. «Deadline, Jul 15»
6
Coal: Economy is not paramount priority
The most obvious bum steer visible on the horizon today is blind worship of the short-term economy over the human beings who populate it ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
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Manchester United haven't boasted an elite player since Cristiano …
... the ones who command the eight-figure salaries and populate the podium at Ballon d'Or ceremonies – not since 2009 and Cristiano Ronaldo ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
8
Liftoff's first campaign is Rotorua eco-tourism venture
If you already have an individual NBR account please login hereplease login here to pre-populate this information. Email *. Create password *. «The National Business Review, Jul 15»
9
How Woody Allen Lost Me
That the guy who continues to populate his schematically nihilistic movies with wealthy, elitist pedants was an unpredictable and formally ... «Forward, Jul 15»
10
10 of most invasive fish species in the world
They can easily populate streams and cause a shift in invertebrate populations, a shift that has an impact on every other species that feeds on ... «Mother Nature Network, Jul 15»

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